Good evening everyone and welcome to books and books with the virtual author series we are virtual booksellers and author events its great to see you all here tonight. Thank you to all of you out there and all the support that you have shown books of books and writers everywhere at this time we are facing. Hoping that you and your families are safe and healthy. Natalie with the Miami Book Fair that we do think them people are asking about the book fair weather virtual or physical or a combination its too early to tell and also the culture crusaders were thrilled to welcome our good friend to celebrate the publication of his new book the lincoln conspiracy we have been with brad not let any virus get in the way. Everyone knows the story that with the original conspiracy in 1861 and for that first inauguration to say this is a story that few people know with deep Political Division and what they do in times of strife and on the New York Times bestseller and the escape artist and thriller
Im very happy about that. So where are we going to go . Lets talk quickly about the lincoln conspiracy. We all know john wilkes booths store, how he ended abraham agains life and his presidency and this is the first secret plot to kill Abraham Lincoln is at the start of the presidency, before it begins. Why does it happen . When abraham i can is going to raise his right hand and become the sixteenth president of the United States the only way he can do that is take a train from his home in springfield and go to washington dc. He goes to washington dc and the only way to get from illinois to dc is on any train, you have to go through baltimore and baltimore was a slave state. The plot of the book is very simple. A secret society is planning to kill Abraham Lincoln, and ambition when he comes to baltimore in and his friend is presidency before it begins. That is the setup but what i think is interesting is the action, just where it begins. We open on this train and it is speeding through
And books. Com gives your email address will send you emails about everything that was on dislocation and or other locations. I dont often if youve been down to Coconut Grove recently given his store down there another wentworth dimensioning down at the adrian art center we have on january 26 at 630 isabella will be joining us thats available at the art center. Org any number of wonderful events you can visit us here we do farm to table dinners, podcast with a lot of authors that their owner and Founder Mitchell Kaplan you can only do that by accessing the webpage. So please visit us there. We are very happy to have this evening mr. Christopher knowlton. Bubble in the sun the florida boom and how it brought on the Great Depression. So its our fault. I thought there Something Else involved. Christopher knowlton is a former staff writer and london magazine he spent much time in the Investment Business as previous book was cattle kingdom the Hidden History of the cowboy west, please give
As regular viewers of booktv now, all of the major book festivals this spring have been canceled due to the coronavirus. Booktv was scheduled to be live in tucson and los angeles, new orleans and san antonio as well, all cancels. We know the effect it is having on book fairs and large gatherings but is it having an effect also on bookstores and smaller businesses. Mitchell kaplan runs bookstores in coral gables, florida called books and books. Has coronavirus affected your business . Yes, unfortunately, it has. We have been holding on as long as we could but it looks like starting tomorrow, we are going to be closing down all six stores in the miami area and trying to move our sales online and encourage people to buy at our website. This is happening i believe across the country with independent bookstores everywhere. Like normally happens independent bookstores are representative of what is happening with Small Business so there are many thousands upon thousands of Small Business peop
Hochschild who was a Founding Member of americas communist party. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone, and welcome to politics prose. Hi name is matthew zipf, im part of the events team here. Each year we host close to 1,000 authors here at the wharf and at union market. Please see our web site, politics. Prose. Com or pick up a paper copy of our Events Calendar at the desk. Before the event, i do have a few short housekeeping items. First, please silence your cell phones so we dont have any buzzing or ringing during the event. When its time for the q and a session after the presentation, please come up to the microphone there as we are recording the event via audio. Please also make sure that your question is, in fact, a question [laughter] if you have a dissertation, we do have a selfpublishing arm. [laughter] well have a signing for the book up at the front at this table here after the event. If you do not yet have a copy, we have plenty available for sale at the regist